U.S. Patent 10946291 was awarded to Amazon Technologies, Inc. on March 16, 2021 and is entitled “Granting and securing ownership of cross-application digital assets.” The first named inventor is Daniel Morgan Harris of Grosse Pointe Farms, MI. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Disclosed are various embodiments for granting and securing ownership of cross-application digital assets using a blockchain. An asset record is generated in a blockchain. The asset record represents a digital asset being awarded to a user by a first application based on an amount of application-measured effort expended by the user or an achievement earned by the user in engaging with the first application. The digital asset may be usable by the user in the first application and at least one second application. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 16, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/924010 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10946291. The primary examiner was Chase E Leichliter.

Amazon Technologies, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 15802 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 1 times by other U.S. patents according to our law firm research, and can be considered an innovative patent in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

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